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so for the obama administration, the timetable of this is going to overlap or coincide very likely with that decision. so a lot of what happens over the next nine months may be political, who is joining the task force, what are they asking for, how does this dovetail with the political case he's making that he's a steward of the environment. >> margaret, thanks so much. >> you it. ♪ >>> and now to our signature segment featuring in-depth reporting from around the nation and from around the world. for years now energy companies have been drilling underground to extract natural gas using a process known as fracking and for just as long, many environmentalists have insisted that it's just not that safe. we look at an unlikely coalition that has formed in pennsylvania between some environmental lifts and a number of oil and gas companies. they say it will allow fracking to continue and ensure that safeguards are taken. rick carr reports. >> environmentalists have been protesting against fracking in pennsylvania ever since the natural gas boom about ten years ago. >> a resounding no to fra
so for the obama administration, the timetable of this is going to overlap or coincide very likely with that decision. so a lot of what happens over the next nine months may be political, who is joining the task force, what are they asking for, how does this dovetail with the political case he's making that he's a steward of the environment. >> margaret, thanks so much. >> you it. ♪ >>> and now to our signature segment featuring in-depth reporting from around the nation...
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jurisdicti >> this was to be the landmark achievement of the obama administration what. and the way they h us.led it tell >> they had three carries to figure it out and they had a traffic failure. the obama administration came in nd they said when there were various scandals we are focused on bigger things like implementing healthcare. of obstacles, republicans were trying to stop them at every turn. a was not like they had placid three years of installing this. but there was a big management two months. then with panic replacing the no put theeling them, they right people in place and cut to he quick and got through the bureaucratic fog and achieved million. what is at stake is whether the things.nt can do big they did it but they did it under severe panic conditions. gwen: does that mean they are willing to kick the smaller mandateike the employer that they said for a long time was central and essential and tweaking it been around the edges. will that eventually go away? panic out the focusing you would not have necessarily maybe seen the white house throw of dead lane
jurisdicti >> this was to be the landmark achievement of the obama administration what. and the way they h us.led it tell >> they had three carries to figure it out and they had a traffic failure. the obama administration came in nd they said when there were various scandals we are focused on bigger things like implementing healthcare. of obstacles, republicans were trying to stop them at every turn. a was not like they had placid three years of installing this. but there was a big...
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. >> he was issued a security clearance under the obama administration and spring, 2016. the trip and transactions you are referring to occurred in december, 2015. so, obviously, there is an issue that you point out the department of defense is looking into. we welcome that. but all of that clearance was, was made during the obama administration, and a purely -- apparently with knowledge of the trip he took. tim: my colleague spoke to the democratic senator chris coons who sits on the foreign relations committee as part of the bbc's 100 days program. ♪ >> senator coons, the national security adviser sits in the west wing right now the -- near the president. he advises the president on vital issues of national importance and intelligence. how on earth was general michael flynn able to get the job of national security adviser to president trump? >> that is a great question. that clip i heard from sean spicer was a pathetic attempt at making it somehow the obama administration's fault that general flynn, despite conflicts of interest, was the national security advisor to p
. >> he was issued a security clearance under the obama administration and spring, 2016. the trip and transactions you are referring to occurred in december, 2015. so, obviously, there is an issue that you point out the department of defense is looking into. we welcome that. but all of that clearance was, was made during the obama administration, and a purely -- apparently with knowledge of the trip he took. tim: my colleague spoke to the democratic senator chris coons who sits on the...
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he said what happened under the obama administration would not happen under his administration. and we just haven't seen that. >> sreenivasan: what is the difference between what has been happening and what was on the books in terms of regulations or restrictions that the obama administration had put on eisen forcement and how they should prioritize who to round up and deport? >> well, the obama administration, we've reported this, deported a lot of people who had never committed a crime, got a lot of criticism for doing that and over time, the obama administration issued memos that sought to curtail exactly the types of folks immigration officials could arrest and deport. and in 2014, late 2014, that really took affect. you can see the number of noncriminals, and overall deportations going down the last couple of nears with his administration. >> sreenivasan: is there a chilling effect in terms of people that are coming forward, say whistle-blowers or witnesses to crimes or maybe even victims for fear that they will be deported in the process? >> well, at least two cities, los
he said what happened under the obama administration would not happen under his administration. and we just haven't seen that. >> sreenivasan: what is the difference between what has been happening and what was on the books in terms of regulations or restrictions that the obama administration had put on eisen forcement and how they should prioritize who to round up and deport? >> well, the obama administration, we've reported this, deported a lot of people who had never committed a...
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. >> the president is under fire for claiming hat the obama administration surveilled him. >> rose: the f.b.i. director said he'd seen no evidence of that and every other national security official. >> right, so the president is hanging out there it mr. displie right. >> and i think chairman nunes was trying to help him out. he took it to the white house and media and i think he acted inappropriately. i think what he should have done and what practice says he should have done is, number one, he should have gone back to the relevant agency, whether it be the f.b.i. or whether it be the c.i.a. or n.s.a., to go back to the relevant agency and say, i was given these, how do i think about these? are there any more like these? help me understand these. that should have been step one with. step two should have been to take the answer and share it with the entire committee before taking any action of briefing the president, let alone the media. >> rose: you said in the beginning this has nothing to do with whether president obama's administration bugged trump tower. >> this collection, based on
. >> the president is under fire for claiming hat the obama administration surveilled him. >> rose: the f.b.i. director said he'd seen no evidence of that and every other national security official. >> right, so the president is hanging out there it mr. displie right. >> and i think chairman nunes was trying to help him out. he took it to the white house and media and i think he acted inappropriately. i think what he should have done and what practice says he should have...
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pete: plus the obama administration tells public schools allow students to choose the bathroom that matches their chosen gender identity, with federal funds at stake. susan davis, n.p.r., jeanne cummings, political editor of "the wall street journal," and abby philip and josh gerstein discuss. announcer: award-winning reporting and analysis, overing history as it happens. live from our nation's capital, this is "washington week" with wen ifill. corporate funding for wolfpack swook provided by -- -- for "washington week" is provided by -- >> we're committed to strong. we're committed to sure. we're committed to smart and light, secure and bold. in a world of enduring needs, the men and women of boing are proud to build and deliver critical capabilities for those who serve to pro tekt our nation and its allies and that's an enduring commitment. >> thousands of people came out today to run the race for retirement so we asked them, are you completely prepared for retirement? ok, mostly prepared? could you say 1 -- save 1% more of your income? it doesn't sound like much but saving an additional
pete: plus the obama administration tells public schools allow students to choose the bathroom that matches their chosen gender identity, with federal funds at stake. susan davis, n.p.r., jeanne cummings, political editor of "the wall street journal," and abby philip and josh gerstein discuss. announcer: award-winning reporting and analysis, overing history as it happens. live from our nation's capital, this is "washington week" with wen ifill. corporate funding for wolfpack...
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obama's administration sued north carolina a. the case is highly relevant to what we will be talking about today. >> and since you bring it up. let's talk about that. the to sides of the debate, the state is saying, look, thenth amendment says we can make the decisions of how we allocate resources in law enfoement and federal government is saying you cannot interfere with thefe ral law enforcement. how does it break down? >> on the one side, the 10th amement, you cannot be forced to enforce federal law. and on the other end we can't, the state of california, can't obstruct the lawful implementation of federal law. there's ways the federal government can ask for nd cooperation a entice cooperation through grants. for the california legislation, have they gone over the line and gone to the obstruction side of things? >> and let's talk about political risks and rewards. there were a few minutes that went by after sessions spoke inboxweek that i got in my a fundraising pitch and donald trump sent out a pitch as well. how does it affe
obama's administration sued north carolina a. the case is highly relevant to what we will be talking about today. >> and since you bring it up. let's talk about that. the to sides of the debate, the state is saying, look, thenth amendment says we can make the decisions of how we allocate resources in law enfoement and federal government is saying you cannot interfere with thefe ral law enforcement. how does it break down? >> on the one side, the 10th amement, you cannot be forced to...
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he doesn't lay out how his policies on iran would be different on what the obama administration has done and even on israel what exactly he'd change. is there any truth to that and how do you think -- does the romney campaign have to respond to that? maybe not this week but at some point? >> they do have to respond to that and he gave a speech at reno at the v.f.w. before he left. gwen: a tough speech. >> probably the toughest speech he's given about the president. and certainly in many ways the most complete he's done on foreign policy. and he ticked off a series of criticisms different places around the globe. but you're right, he has not filled out the details of that's. he -- of those. he's not been explicit how his policy would differ with the president's with regard to israel. there's no question that with the president the relationship has been strained with israel. but beyond saying i'ding be a better friend, he's not talked about it. he didn't say a lot about iran but did saeed say zero enrichment for the iranians which goes beyond what the president has been willing to accept.
he doesn't lay out how his policies on iran would be different on what the obama administration has done and even on israel what exactly he'd change. is there any truth to that and how do you think -- does the romney campaign have to respond to that? maybe not this week but at some point? >> they do have to respond to that and he gave a speech at reno at the v.f.w. before he left. gwen: a tough speech. >> probably the toughest speech he's given about the president. and certainly in...
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we need to hear more acknowledgment from the obama administration of that. >> yang: the obama administration acknowledges these numbers are estimates. they say ngos like yours have more access to research these numbers. but sarah, the policy has been and will continue to be that no air strikes if there's a near certainty that a non-combatant would be killed. but we have on average, one in every four of these air strikes have claimed a non-come batted nt life. what does that say about this system and the precision that naureen was talking about of the system? >> precision is a really tricky thing. precision means that you are hitting the thing that you think you're going to hit. i am going to hit this folder. i am going to hit this glass of water. it doesn't mean that that folder or the glass of water is actually the thing that we think it is. so if you are striking from the air with a drone, for example, you may be hitting a person that you thought was something but is actually something else. and sometimes those are civilians. >> yang: also today we have an executive order laying out policy
we need to hear more acknowledgment from the obama administration of that. >> yang: the obama administration acknowledges these numbers are estimates. they say ngos like yours have more access to research these numbers. but sarah, the policy has been and will continue to be that no air strikes if there's a near certainty that a non-combatant would be killed. but we have on average, one in every four of these air strikes have claimed a non-come batted nt life. what does that say about this...
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that is something that is missing in a town that wants desperately, for barack obama and his administration to succeed. >> it starts at the top it is a description of obama. >> i don't think obama is without humor -- >> have you seen him be self- deprecating? >> yes, i have. >> i think some of this is irrelevant. the problem is lack of success. if obama was succeeding with the policies he wants, he could be as dour as he wants to be everybody would still cheer him. it is not his personality, is the way he is executing policy in this city. it's not just the health care debate, but on things like afghanistan, the weight tax policies -- it is hard to find a consistent theme in the obama administration. >> the third year of ronald reagan's administration, in the midst of cold war tensions and a bad economy, gallup found that american optimism was at its highest point in years, since 1959. bill clinton was able to generate a sense of optimism and of little bit of happiness. i think the president really is, and the white house in particular, it sets the tone to some degree it indirectly for the n
that is something that is missing in a town that wants desperately, for barack obama and his administration to succeed. >> it starts at the top it is a description of obama. >> i don't think obama is without humor -- >> have you seen him be self- deprecating? >> yes, i have. >> i think some of this is irrelevant. the problem is lack of success. if obama was succeeding with the policies he wants, he could be as dour as he wants to be everybody would still cheer him....
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during the obama administration. is questions about how donald trump will run his foreign policy because he has the foreignnose at policy establishment. katty: what are you hearing? anthony: they are having difficulty trying to make peace with donald trump. a member of the george w. bush roteign-policy team w yesterday saying how members of the establishment should work with donald trump. that they have a duty to help him. donald trump tweeted that they were angry and arrogant. that they cannot work with him. you're seeing names floated for high-level foreign-policy positions that are not experts. rudy giuliani been floated as a secretary of state. he has very little foreign-policy experience. katty: mr. trump has 4000 posts to fill. it always takes a long time to get them all filled. but this seems to be moving slower than previous ones. most know elton john as an award-winning musician, but he has a great collection of photographs from the 1920's to the 1950's. they are on display as part of the exhibition. the sin
during the obama administration. is questions about how donald trump will run his foreign policy because he has the foreignnose at policy establishment. katty: what are you hearing? anthony: they are having difficulty trying to make peace with donald trump. a member of the george w. bush roteign-policy team w yesterday saying how members of the establishment should work with donald trump. that they have a duty to help him. donald trump tweeted that they were angry and arrogant. that they cannot...
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what we're seeing is a giant reversal from a time when republican states were suing the obama administration to stop these rules. now we have democratic states suing the trump administration to preserve them as long as possible. tim: thanks very much indeed. from american politics to british politics. prime minister theresa may has just signed the letter that formally announces britain's plan to leave the european union, article 50. it will be delivered by hand on wednesday to the european brussels.esident in it starts the new chapter in u.k.-european relations. you are watching bbc "world news america." the top u.s. military commander in iraq has acknowledged the united states was probably involved in an explosion in western mosul that killed many civilians this month. general townsend said fighters from the so-called islamic state may have put innocent people the liver elite in harms way. an investigation is being cared carried out. on the front line with the civilians still trying to flee the city. >> when their identities were checked they were able to leave the war zone. it was first li
what we're seeing is a giant reversal from a time when republican states were suing the obama administration to stop these rules. now we have democratic states suing the trump administration to preserve them as long as possible. tim: thanks very much indeed. from american politics to british politics. prime minister theresa may has just signed the letter that formally announces britain's plan to leave the european union, article 50. it will be delivered by hand on wednesday to the european...
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them me more about what the job does and why does the obama administration not support it? >> so the s.t.e.m. bill is a bill which takes visas from what's called the diversity lottery, which is a great pr program where actually it's a lottery for green cards in the u.s. it takes those 55,000 visas and says we're going to get rid of lottery and make those visas available for people who have advanced degrees in science, technology, engineering, math. and it's the only bill that the republicans have been willing to pass out of the house. and what the democrats, interestingly enough, the democrats and the president have really stood firm on this. they support the underlying legislation. they don't want to get rid of the diversity lottery. they think we can do both. but they think it needs to be part of a bigger package. >> okay. >> what's being called comprehensive immigration reform. that's really not just about these taxes, that's about legalizing the 11 million undocumented immigrants in this country, giving them a pass to earn citizenship. that's about fixing broken laws th
them me more about what the job does and why does the obama administration not support it? >> so the s.t.e.m. bill is a bill which takes visas from what's called the diversity lottery, which is a great pr program where actually it's a lottery for green cards in the u.s. it takes those 55,000 visas and says we're going to get rid of lottery and make those visas available for people who have advanced degrees in science, technology, engineering, math. and it's the only bill that the...
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looking back, do you think the obama administration did any beer? >> think the obama administration tried a new approach but in the course of thechurge, was approved in 2009, about this time 10 years ago, the result of the surge was an americanization of the fight in afghanistan. we essentially took over the re inins from the eme afghan security caphaity. we tookon as our own. this is a natural outcome of dispatching 100,000 americans to any war zone, but in particular in afghanistan. that americanization, the owning of the war, set us back on the strategic goal orr transg this war and the responsibility of the war to the afghan government and the afghan security forces. nick: how much personal responsibility do you take in that decision that you see as flawed? wrecks i was very candid in this interview because i own some of th. it was on my watch that we made the of these strategic stakes.it was on my watch that i learned about afghanistan and tried to build personal expertise, but it took me 10 years and on the last day of 10 years working on afgh
looking back, do you think the obama administration did any beer? >> think the obama administration tried a new approach but in the course of thechurge, was approved in 2009, about this time 10 years ago, the result of the surge was an americanization of the fight in afghanistan. we essentially took over the re inins from the eme afghan security caphaity. we tookon as our own. this is a natural outcome of dispatching 100,000 americans to any war zone, but in particular in afghanistan....
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katty: the meddling happenedun r your watch, under the obama administration's watch. shouldn't you have done more to stop it? w ben: i thicould have done more. i don't think we could have stopped it. esse internet. have an open most of what russia was doing was creating propaganda and shooting it into people's social media feeds, reaching f millions of americans. we don't censor in the united states, katty, and it is hard to tell where information is coming from. what we could have done is provided more information to the public, give them a clear picture of the russian meddling . even the statements we made tended to focus on the hacking and releasing of e-mails i think that was one piece of what russia was doing compared to the broad information wars they wereth waging he creation and dissemination of pro-trump propaganda. laura: the book is called "the world as it is." not the most optimistic of titles.ee do you fatalistic about where we are a watching the unraveling of much of what you woed for over the course of eight years? ben: obama used a formulation in speec
katty: the meddling happenedun r your watch, under the obama administration's watch. shouldn't you have done more to stop it? w ben: i thicould have done more. i don't think we could have stopped it. esse internet. have an open most of what russia was doing was creating propaganda and shooting it into people's social media feeds, reaching f millions of americans. we don't censor in the united states, katty, and it is hard to tell where information is coming from. what we could have done is...
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administration. president-elect biden: if the fact that america is back, ready toead the world, not retreat from it. once again sit at the head of the table ready to confront our adversaries and not reject our allies. >> there has been one unexpected flurry of activities. with no notice the president announced he would give a briefing. would this be the formal confession? the offer of congratulations to joe bin? no, he came to take credit for the stock market reaching a record high, then walked out after just one minute. laura: joining us now for more on the new biden team is anthony zurcher. what is joe biden saying about theon direc of the sticks? >> these are theind of picks of someone who has been in american politics would make. joe biden has that depth of experience, and he values bureaucratic ape political exrience. these are not flashy names, butm they are people who have been in government often on through much of the obama administration. picking jocl kerry as his ate ambassador and former
administration. president-elect biden: if the fact that america is back, ready toead the world, not retreat from it. once again sit at the head of the table ready to confront our adversaries and not reject our allies. >> there has been one unexpected flurry of activities. with no notice the president announced he would give a briefing. would this be the formal confession? the offer of congratulations to joe bin? no, he came to take credit for the stock market reaching a record high, then...
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he was part of the biden obama administration for eig years and ma african-american say those eight years did not profoundly change their experience at all. >> they may be a few that are uninformed but the reality is at employer -- that unemployment dropped extraordinary. he brought them out of a depression. trump likes to say he did more for african americans th abraham lincoln and that's not true. it was for healt care gave african-americans health care protection from being cu off the pre-existing conditions than in the history of thi country so we cannot say things did not cnge. they did, and biden is talkin about living wages. 49 million people rise out of poverty minute you have $15 into union. biden sankey will expand health there that's why we have 20s million voat are not counted. th know they can't winy hich is why tve suppressed the vote, that's why they have covi rage dure election. we did not have to have this during the election and its while have given our voters this misinformation about doing everything then to hold onto power. >> the chum caaign maintains that it has han
he was part of the biden obama administration for eig years and ma african-american say those eight years did not profoundly change their experience at all. >> they may be a few that are uninformed but the reality is at employer -- that unemployment dropped extraordinary. he brought them out of a depression. trump likes to say he did more for african americans th abraham lincoln and that's not true. it was for healt care gave african-americans health care protection from being cu off the...
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administration, and also because of uneasiness over the current political climate. for "nightly business report," dee dee roy, san francisco. >> google is trying to figure out an issue of its own, monitoring content. advertisers have pulled out of google's youtube because they don't want their brand next to objectionable videos. gloria is at a conference in los angeles. >> chief marketing officers and ad agencies here are talking about what google has to do for their brands to stay safe on ult. >> what we're hearing from the members is it's time for a lot of these platforms to grow up. they're still fairly young platforms. unlike the other platforms we have, television, radio, print that's been around forever, they haven't really grown up into a place where you can measure and understand what's really being delivered. >> taco bell's chief marketing officer tells us that while she considers google an important partner, they're taking a break until google makes more changes. >> we are on pause, however. that's how we see it. because at the end of the day, context matt
administration, and also because of uneasiness over the current political climate. for "nightly business report," dee dee roy, san francisco. >> google is trying to figure out an issue of its own, monitoring content. advertisers have pulled out of google's youtube because they don't want their brand next to objectionable videos. gloria is at a conference in los angeles. >> chief marketing officers and ad agencies here are talking about what google has to do for their...
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i think what the obama administration was doing here is... i don't think, this is my view, i don't think they'd come to a firm conclusion that there was complicity, but they saw enough to raise the question in their minds and to convince them that some further investigation was required. and i suspect they believed once again in that context that i described that should trump be elected, someone would have an impulse to not pursue this. so i think they were trying the guarantee that it would continue to be pursued. >> sreenivasan: john mclaghlin, michael mukasay, thank you both. >> sreenivasan: stay with us, coming up on the newshour: why the stock market just keeps going up. seeing world war one through the lens of art. and a brief take on what it's like to be a female comedian. but first, you might know retailer zappos for the shoes it sells and its emphasis on customer service. what you may not know about is its quirky corporate culture, and why the company is banking on that for its long-term success. our economics correspondent paul solm
i think what the obama administration was doing here is... i don't think, this is my view, i don't think they'd come to a firm conclusion that there was complicity, but they saw enough to raise the question in their minds and to convince them that some further investigation was required. and i suspect they believed once again in that context that i described that should trump be elected, someone would have an impulse to not pursue this. so i think they were trying the guarantee that it would...
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>> certainly there is this longing and wanting for the obama administration and obama era to last longer, without a doubt, but there is hope that, in the next -- whoever the next administration is, that they will be cognizant of what is important to us and try to address the issues, and we'll hear more about that on the presidential debate on monday. really, what do they stand for and what do they not stand for in terms of what resonates with our black community, and that's why i think people are kind of hopeful for -- we just want to hear a word, and a word that makes sense for everything that's going on around us that speaks to how we're going to move forward.fo >> ifill: andre perry, what's a leader's responsibility,sp whether a president or county commissioner who we talked to earlier trevor fuller and why should it matter at all to the broader community?oa >> it's not too much to demand we're not shot dead in thee street, it's not too much to demand we get clean water in michigan. some of the things we ask for are basic human rights.s so when i look at the presidential landscape, it
>> certainly there is this longing and wanting for the obama administration and obama era to last longer, without a doubt, but there is hope that, in the next -- whoever the next administration is, that they will be cognizant of what is important to us and try to address the issues, and we'll hear more about that on the presidential debate on monday. really, what do they stand for and what do they not stand for in terms of what resonates with our black community, and that's why i think...
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closing guantanamo at this stage and the obama administration view is really moving guantanamo to u.s. soil. the idea is not to open the cages and let everybody go or give them federal trials and put them in federal detention. the idea is to pick up the last detainees and move them to military detention in the united states. what we call guantanamo north. closing the detention center in cuba and reconstituting on u.s. soil. congress so far has systemically blocked that vision. >> why? >> i think that part of it is that there is fear that for some reason these alleged terrorists are scarier than all of the alleged terrorists-- or actually the convicted terrorists in u.s. prisons. i think part of is that members of congress really like the message of guantanamo. and the message of guantanamo to the world is mess with us and you end up in a cage at guantanamo bay. in addition, there is ambition by some people in congress to grow guantanamo. they like the idea that this could be an interrogation center. and mostly nobody wants guantanamo in their backyard. >> sreenivasan: what have the ou
closing guantanamo at this stage and the obama administration view is really moving guantanamo to u.s. soil. the idea is not to open the cages and let everybody go or give them federal trials and put them in federal detention. the idea is to pick up the last detainees and move them to military detention in the united states. what we call guantanamo north. closing the detention center in cuba and reconstituting on u.s. soil. congress so far has systemically blocked that vision. >> why?...
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he then said that the foreign policy of the obama administration was bad, very terrible, the worst ever policy was going to bring in the best ever policy, using his simple language, stitching lines from all of his stump speeches and sort of into his foreign policy speech. he said his foreign policy will be the first coherent foreign the coldnce the end of war, however, it's also going to be completely unpredictable so i sat there scratching my head andking you're coherent unpredictable at the same time? militarye'll make the stronger but we're not going to use the military unless we we'll bey have to but tough on isis but we'll only fight wars if we can win. whats a lot of saying everyone wanted to hear, something for everyone. john: what's the point of this that vague?'s you saw the flags in the background, what was he going for? that camethe message through to voters was that two-word slogan, "america first" people responded to that. you saw it on social media, people loved it. jeff: what was striking to me, we're at the end of april, he's nominee,e republican that was his first forei
he then said that the foreign policy of the obama administration was bad, very terrible, the worst ever policy was going to bring in the best ever policy, using his simple language, stitching lines from all of his stump speeches and sort of into his foreign policy speech. he said his foreign policy will be the first coherent foreign the coldnce the end of war, however, it's also going to be completely unpredictable so i sat there scratching my head andking you're coherent unpredictable at the...
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through senminations to officially serve on the biden ,administrati but a lot of them served in the obama administration, so they are familiar creatures of washington, if you will come a trump appointees, many of whom came from outside the beltway, as we like to call it, so definitely a bit of a return to normalcy, maybe even a return to obama era days. ros: it is a tonal shift, for better or worse depending on your polical persuasion, but in practical terms,hich foreign policy strands is this likely to impact immediately? >> we are going to see that the u.s. climate plan, the u.s. stance on climate, is going tobe impacted very quickly. president-elect joe biden has saidhe u.s. will rejoin ee paris clim recors soon as he takes office. john kerry, the secretary of state during the obama administraon, which hp shape thos climate accords, is itching get that started back again. so that climate in particular is going toma be r issue to look at. i would also say that in general, you are gng to see more local partnership with the u.s. and other nations. president trump very much tempted this am
through senminations to officially serve on the biden ,administrati but a lot of them served in the obama administration, so they are familiar creatures of washington, if you will come a trump appointees, many of whom came from outside the beltway, as we like to call it, so definitely a bit of a return to normalcy, maybe even a return to obama era days. ros: it is a tonal shift, for better or worse depending on your polical persuasion, but in practical terms,hich foreign policy strands is this...
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>> reporter: the obama administration is offering some assistance with more than $30 million in grants to help former coal and power workers in twelve states since last year. dave serock, a local union leader who lost his job at the emerald mine, now works as a counselor for an organization helping former coal workers find, and train for, new jobs. serock's says he's taken a $70,000 pay cut. >> the biggest thing is, i think, the pressure that it puts on the individual knowing that it went from here, and now you're here, and there's not a whole lot you can do about it. >> reporter: your standard of living has changed? >> oh, definitely. >> reporter: re-training is a tough sell to unemployed miners who cannot afford to spend one or two years learning a new trade: their unemployment benefits end after six months. >> how do you pay your bills in the meantime while you're going? part-time job is just not going to be enough to support them, even if they make cuts. >> reporter: the new jobs, like driving trucks, pay far less than mining and often lack the health care and other benefits earned
>> reporter: the obama administration is offering some assistance with more than $30 million in grants to help former coal and power workers in twelve states since last year. dave serock, a local union leader who lost his job at the emerald mine, now works as a counselor for an organization helping former coal workers find, and train for, new jobs. serock's says he's taken a $70,000 pay cut. >> the biggest thing is, i think, the pressure that it puts on the individual knowing that...
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, the epa, the ftc, they are taking directions that are very, very much different than the obama administration, and those are fund me changes in the way those industries operate and if you, for example, just the one thing, if it is the fda starts changine the way in which they evaluate new drugs is a big deal and so there are those kind of changes that are happening based on the personnel he has put in place and way behind even naming the people to be in a lot of these agencies which creates these conditions where you have the kind of ghost agencies in part because he hasn't put the names in the pipeline but the people he has named are changing things in a way that is, a i think going largely unnoticed and b is going to make a real change in things that really affect tell and that is another big thing he has accomplished, even though he may not even cite that that as the things he has accomplished, it is quite, you know, when reason magazine can give him credit for being a real deregulating president because of the people he has named, that is a surprise, the reason it was, not a big fan when
, the epa, the ftc, they are taking directions that are very, very much different than the obama administration, and those are fund me changes in the way those industries operate and if you, for example, just the one thing, if it is the fda starts changine the way in which they evaluate new drugs is a big deal and so there are those kind of changes that are happening based on the personnel he has put in place and way behind even naming the people to be in a lot of these agencies which creates...
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. >> susie: virginia's lawsuit challenging the obama administration's health care reform cleared its first legal hurdle today. a federal judge turned down the justice department's request to dismiss the suit. other observers, like tonight's commentator, call it an opportunity to fix health here's alice rivlin, senior fellow at brookings and former vice chair at the federal reserve. >> critics of the new health reform call it the road to socialism. but, wait a minute, isn't the central innovation a new marketplace, called an exchange, in which the uninsured can buy health insurance? doesn't the exchange allow consumers without health coverage to choose among competing private-sector health plans? the law charges states with setting up exchanges, although they can form regional exchanges if they like. health plans meeting certain standards offer their wares. consumers, armed with federal subsidies for those with low incomes, make choices. small businesses can also use exchanges to shop for the best deal in a larger pool. that doesn't sound like socialism to me. it sounds like a serious
. >> susie: virginia's lawsuit challenging the obama administration's health care reform cleared its first legal hurdle today. a federal judge turned down the justice department's request to dismiss the suit. other observers, like tonight's commentator, call it an opportunity to fix health here's alice rivlin, senior fellow at brookings and former vice chair at the federal reserve. >> critics of the new health reform call it the road to socialism. but, wait a minute, isn't the...
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the obama administration sought to raise the salary cap for workers eligible for overtime pay to $47,500 a year; about double the current cap. the rule would affect 4-million workers, requiring employers to pay them "time-and-a-half" for every hour exceeding 40 hours in a given week. and company payroll departments are already prepared for the change. joining me now to discuss the ramifications of the rule and its status is npr business correspondent yuki noguchi. >> your background. why did the labor department issue this rule and why that number? >> their argument was that they were trying to modernize the rules and increase the salary to a level that would be relevant, that is, what most people might consider white collar jobs. >> how did this move or the attempt for this move play into the overall discussion about living wage and raising the federal mirm wage which has also not been changed in many years? >> i think argument the obama administration was trying to make was trying to address this issue of forcing employers to either pay overtime or to raise the salaries of workers who
the obama administration sought to raise the salary cap for workers eligible for overtime pay to $47,500 a year; about double the current cap. the rule would affect 4-million workers, requiring employers to pay them "time-and-a-half" for every hour exceeding 40 hours in a given week. and company payroll departments are already prepared for the change. joining me now to discuss the ramifications of the rule and its status is npr business correspondent yuki noguchi. >> your...
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certainly, the obama administration did more on pricp trency than he did. so, you know, it's an important question as to whahe's actually going to do since he's had four years an done almost nothing on that. so on prices, one of the things we have argued and i think isnt very impors we need to change how we actually pay for hethcare to doctors and hospitals, we need to move off the fee for service system, and we need to get to more value-based payments, so doctors don't get pai for everything they do, they get paid for managing your health problems and keeping you healthy. that's called value-based payment. we also need to change physicia behavior, so they refer you to places that are lower cost, hospitals that charge less, lab facilities that charge less. those are going to b really important. we also, i do think, need to ce control.s drug pri companies set prces instead ofug linking prices to how much of a health impact those drugs actually make. in many other ntues, you know, you release a new drug that has a comparable existig drug on the market, you ca
certainly, the obama administration did more on pricp trency than he did. so, you know, it's an important question as to whahe's actually going to do since he's had four years an done almost nothing on that. so on prices, one of the things we have argued and i think isnt very impors we need to change how we actually pay for hethcare to doctors and hospitals, we need to move off the fee for service system, and we need to get to more value-based payments, so doctors don't get pai for everything...
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administration. just -- you talked about that $8.3 stimulus package, emergency package, donald temp said h wanted $2.5 billion and that said no, no, you need ess more. we'll give that to you. and so all the while we havhee seen president not only be all over the place but his instinct was to try d tonplay it. because he saw it as a political threat to say that people would get better. to say -- even today, he's saying we have everything under control. we have this website that people can go to and findheut wherecan get tested. the website isn't en done yet. so it's his instinc to try to downplay things and talk himself out of things. he'sor learning thatavirus is the one thing that he cannot talk himself out of. robert: that speech he gave helped -- helped by jared kushner and steven miller based on yr reporting and others. >> yeah. the speech was a disaster in the end because we saw wha ppened in the mark ds the ne. we saw the white house and the administration having to clean up a lot of the presid
administration. just -- you talked about that $8.3 stimulus package, emergency package, donald temp said h wanted $2.5 billion and that said no, no, you need ess more. we'll give that to you. and so all the while we havhee seen president not only be all over the place but his instinct was to try d tonplay it. because he saw it as a political threat to say that people would get better. to say -- even today, he's saying we have everything under control. we have this website that people can go to...
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but, instead of raising help, the administration of president obama raised questions. and now because we alienate ited many egyptians over the years, many say we did not criticize mubarak when we should have and they are correct, we did not criticize the military when between should have and they are correct, now we alienated everybody and the only power in egypt is the military and we are trying desperately not to really alienate them completely. >> how much does egypt rely on this international aid? why is it essential? >> well, i think as was noted in your report, first the aid from the united states, about 1.5 billion goes to the egyptian military, about 80 percent of that 1.5 billion takes care of the the egyptian military arms services so it's important for the egyptian military readiness and then of course the aid that the saudis have been given obviously helps the egyptians meet their current needs including their sub sky program and etc. joust to come back to the question that animated all of this, gwen, how much leverage does any of this aid buy anybody, i th
but, instead of raising help, the administration of president obama raised questions. and now because we alienate ited many egyptians over the years, many say we did not criticize mubarak when we should have and they are correct, we did not criticize the military when between should have and they are correct, now we alienated everybody and the only power in egypt is the military and we are trying desperately not to really alienate them completely. >> how much does egypt rely on this...
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i think which one decides which will -- >> one of the producers pointed out during the obama administration all these economic council meetings were in public records. so he was sort of -- i think it's interesting, like would it be more powerful for someone like elon musk or travis calanek to go into the meetings and publicly on the record, you know, go confront the president about these sort of issues? so i don't know -- i guess there's a little bit of a debate, is it better to bow out or make more of a public stand, you know, when you have an audience? >> what are the risks to silicon valley, to taking these types of public stands? >> the president, it looks like he -- his arnold schwarzenegger looks like in full battle, a ridiculous thing. he retaliates on twitter and other places. they could do things. elon's got a lot of space and car regulatory issues that are important to the company. so everybody -- you know, travis has got car regulatory things around self-driving cars, so does google. all kinds of things. the question is, is this administration going to attack the one industry tha
i think which one decides which will -- >> one of the producers pointed out during the obama administration all these economic council meetings were in public records. so he was sort of -- i think it's interesting, like would it be more powerful for someone like elon musk or travis calanek to go into the meetings and publicly on the record, you know, go confront the president about these sort of issues? so i don't know -- i guess there's a little bit of a debate, is it better to bow out...
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the new president asked 50 or so hold-overs from the obama administration to stick around, particularly security agency officials, brett mckirk, helping to run the isis war, tom shannon, undersecretary of state. than anticipated to have some continuity of government because they don't have their team in place yet. what was really interesting, too, about this, as you mentioned, two cabinet secretaries were confirmed today but you saw today that there's not going to be a grace period. new presidents tend to get a little bit of a grace period and in this case you didn't get one from him to his opposition or from the opposition to him. from the start you're hearing scratchiness and tension. democrats on the hill today were wearing buttons "protect healthcare," meaning president obama's healthcare program. senator schumer gave before president trump's speech. we have to get this right. that was pretty in his face a little bit, setting down a red line. we're off to the races from the start. yamiche: there were also a couple of those people he held on to -- brett mckirk in particular but also
the new president asked 50 or so hold-overs from the obama administration to stick around, particularly security agency officials, brett mckirk, helping to run the isis war, tom shannon, undersecretary of state. than anticipated to have some continuity of government because they don't have their team in place yet. what was really interesting, too, about this, as you mentioned, two cabinet secretaries were confirmed today but you saw today that there's not going to be a grace period. new...
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bidens coll from his years in the obama administration. state. secretary of president trump accepted a formal transition of power should begin, tweeting it was in the best interest of the country, but he has not conceded yet. ericans our north editor >> to turkeys, corn and cob and there n only be one winner. one could end up on the white house dinner table this thanksgiving, the other will be pardoned to roam free. present trump: i hereby grant you a full pardon. >> corn lives to fight another day. if only all head-to-head battles connected to the white house were that easy to resolve. the president sounding defensive today. president trump: we send our love to every member of the armed forces and the law enforcement heroes risking their lives to keep america se, to keep america great, and as i ayy, america first. should not go awrom that. america first. >>de donald trump has mahe most significant move to acct the resul of the election. announcing the transition process could get underway. urtweeting, case strongly continues. we will keep up the
bidens coll from his years in the obama administration. state. secretary of president trump accepted a formal transition of power should begin, tweeting it was in the best interest of the country, but he has not conceded yet. ericans our north editor >> to turkeys, corn and cob and there n only be one winner. one could end up on the white house dinner table this thanksgiving, the other will be pardoned to roam free. present trump: i hereby grant you a full pardon. >> corn lives to...
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. >> brown: then, we get the latest on the obama administration's decision to delay approval of an oil pipeline that would stretch from canada to the gulf coast. >> woodruff: from japan, special correspondent miles o'brien reports on ordinary citizens mapping radiation hot spots eight months after the nuclear meltdown. >> this is the town where about 28 kilometers from the fuch seema plant and you don't see anybody around for good reason. >> brown: we look at key moments from last night's g.o.p. presidential debate including texas governor rick perry's stumble, when he tried to list government agencies he'd eliminate. >> i would do away with the education, the, uh, the -- >> commerce. >> commerce and let's see-- i can't-- the third one-- i can't, sorry. oops. >> woodruff: and we close with another in our "economist film project" series. tonight, the story of a lost and now found native american language. >> brown: that's all ahead on tonight's "newshour." major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by: >> okay, listen. somebody has got to get serious. >> i think... >> we need
. >> brown: then, we get the latest on the obama administration's decision to delay approval of an oil pipeline that would stretch from canada to the gulf coast. >> woodruff: from japan, special correspondent miles o'brien reports on ordinary citizens mapping radiation hot spots eight months after the nuclear meltdown. >> this is the town where about 28 kilometers from the fuch seema plant and you don't see anybody around for good reason. >> brown: we look at key moments...